Mobile Agents: 6th International Conference, MA 2002, Barcelona, Spain, October 22-25, 2002, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2535)

Welcome To The Proceedings Of The 6th Ieee International Conference On Mobile Agents. Ma 2002 Took Place In Barcelona, Spain And Was Co-located With The 4th International Workshop On Mobile Agents For Telecommunications Applications. Both Events Were Held At The Universitat Pompeu Fabra, October 22–25, 2002. Mobile Agents May Be De?ned As Programs That, With Varying Degree Of - Tonomy, Can Move Between Hosts Across A Network. Mobile Agents Combine The Notions Of Mobile Code, Mobile Computation, And Mobile State. Capabilities Of Mobile Agents Include: – Supporting Unrealiable Networks And Disconnected Operation – Counteracting Low-bandwidth, High-latency Communication Links – Deploying Newbehaviour (through Mobile Code) And Recon?guring Systems On-the-?y – Distributing Processing Load Across Systems – Improving Survivability In The Face Of Network And System Failure. Given The Above Capabilities, Mobile Agents (while They May Not Be Referred To As Such) Are Nowbecoming Accepted As A Fundamental Architectural Construct For The Design And Development Of Complex Adaptive Systems That Need To Operate In Highly Dynamic Environments. Mobile Agents Also Support Applications In Several Domains Such As Ubiquitous Computing, Grid Computing, Remote Sensing, Data Mining, System Management, And Agile Computing. Azimas: Web Mobile Agent System / Subramanian Arumugam, Abdelsalam (sumi) Helal And Amar Nalla -- Mobile Code In .net: A Porting Experience / Marcio Delamaro And Gian Pietro Picco -- Mobile Agents And Logic Programming / Hisashi Hayashi, Kenta Cho And Akihiko Ohsuga -- Empowering Mobile Software Agents / Volker Roth -- An Intrusion Detection System For Aglets / Giovanni Vigna, Bryan Cassell And Dave Fayram -- Fine-grained Interlaced Code Loading For Mobile Systems / Luk Stoops, Tom Mens And Theo D'hondt -- Improving Scalability Of Replicated Services In Mobile Agent Systems / Jinho Ahn, Sung-gi Min And Chongsun Hwang. Niranjan Suri (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Agents, MA 2002, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2002. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Among the topics addressed are mobile agents, mobile agent systems, mobile software agents, mobile code, mobile objects, interoperability, security, mobile users, middleware, mobile services, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and intrusion detection"--Publisher description Mobile Agents technology opens up new avenues in personalizing and customizing the web experience of users.